Indonesian clerics call Miss World ban

ONE of Indonesia's most influential Islamic groups is urging the government to cancel the Miss World pageant, saying the exposure of skin by women in a competition violates Muslim teachings, an official says. A top-level meeting of clerics was...

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London's mayor wants labour deal with Aust

LONDON Aug 26 PA - Britain and Australia should set up a "free labour mobility zone" to end an "outrageous and indefensible" discrimination that puts European Union workers before Commonwealth nationals, London Mayor Boris Johnson said. He said...

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UK on giant panda birth watch

THE UK's only female giant panda has been placed on 24-hour surveillance after the latest hormone tests indicate she could be pregnant. Edinburgh Zoo's panda keepers are now monitoring Tian Tian around the clock. Experts are not certain at...

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No cover-up over Mt Penny docs: report

GETTING the job done fast, rather than right, may have led NSW bureaucrats to unwittingly withhold nearly 700 pages of documents from parliament relating to a corrupt former minister. The NSW upper house launched an inquiry in March into whether...

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Trump calls NY attorney-general a 'hack'

DONALD Trump has defended his Trump University as a booming success for student entrepreneurs and blasted New York's attorney-general, who's called it a scam. "We have a terrific school. It's done a fantastic job," Trump told ABC's Good Morning...

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